Labels:book | bulletin board | daily | gazette | poster | reckoner | sky OCR: You may well ask: "Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn 1t negoti ation better path?" You are quite right in calling for negoti ation. Indeed this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviol ent direct action see ks to create such crisis and foster such tension that com m unity which has constantly refused to negoti ate forced to confront the issue 11 seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviol lent-resister may sound rather shocking. But must confess that am not afraid the Mord "tension. have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there type of constructive nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was nec essary to create tens ion in the m ...
